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  America Abandons Ideals at Its Peril If there is one blessing in the world greater than to be born an American, it is to become an American. Those born here feel rightly fortunate to be heirs to the greatest nation on earth. Those of us who came here know we can never repay the debt we owe this country for permitting us to share in the fruits of its greatness. If you’ll permit me, I think we immigrants may even have a clearer, or at least a more empirically tested, appreciation of what makes the U.S. great. Neophytes tend to be more passionate about the virtues of their new allegiance than those who have always believed. For those who have direct experience of elsewhere, the appeal of American virtues has been especially luminous. Those who spent the formative part of their lives looking at America from afar have a unique gratitude for what it has done and what it represents. If you grew up, as I did, in Europe in the decades after World War II, through the darkest days of the Co...
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  The Generation Conflagration War in Ukraine, war in the Persian Gulf, growing stress in the American alliance system, greater cohesion among America’s opponents, social unease about artificial intelligence: 2026 won’t go down in history as a calm year. Now, we can add generational conflict to the mix. In 2024 youthful protesters drove Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from power and challenged Serbia’s political establishment. The following year, generational unrest shook and sometimes toppled governments from Nepal and Madagascar to Morocco and Peru. The riots that shocked France last week and the “Cockroach” movement across India show generational politics moving from the margins to the center of world politics, challenging established orders in some of the most powerful and influential nations. Youth movements can be consequential. In 1968 youth revolts in both Western Europe and the U.S. took place whose consequences (and elderly survivors) still shape Western politics...
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China’s Export Boom Masks Woes at Home BY HANNAH MIAO BEIJING—Vivian Wei is shutting her business. After more than a decade as a headhunter, work has dried up. The big Chinese tech companies that once paid Wei to recruit engineers by the hundreds have been laying off employees instead. Wei, 46 years old, estimated that her income has more than halved in the past few years. Lately, she and her husband have cut down on nonessential spending to save money. She used to splurge on skin-care products, but switched to a cheaper domestic brand. Some of her neighbors lost their jobs and have become drivers for DiDi, China’s main ride-hailing platform. Wei’s biggest concern now is whether her 12-year-old son will be able to get a job when he grows up. “I don’t know what the future holds,” Wei said. For people across China, economic worries are mounting. A multiyear real-estate slump has no end in sight, steady jobs are becoming rarer, especially for young people, and many people seem to be hoar...
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  L’éditorial d’Yves Thréard : « Face à la convergence des haines, l’État en danger » 00:00 -02:06 Yves Thréard. Le Figaro Depuis des années, la gauche radicale a signé son crime. Et le pouvoir assiste au spectacle, les bras ballants, dépassé, dans le déni. L’incapacité du chef de l’État à reconnaître le délitement de la nation et à y répondre confine au mépris. La chute du beffroi incendié de la mairie de Limoges résume, à elle seule, l’état de la France. Avec lui, c’est un peu la République qu’on avait l’impression de voir tomber. Une République où l’autorité est malmenée, insultée, piétinée par des individus décivilisés. Une longue suite de démissions explique cette faillite. À l’école, bien sûr, où l’élève a remplacé le maître, où l’effort et l’exigence sont devenus suspects. Sur la voie publique, où les forces de l’ordre sont assimilées à une bande ennemie qui empêche le narcotrafic et tue. Face à l’immigration et ses conséquences aussi, aujourd’hui hors de contrôle, dont il ...
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  US Army chief in Indo-Pacific calls for display of enhanced military muscle General Ronald Clark looks to build up deterrence in region amid concerns about China’s ambitions US Army General Ronald Clark said it was important to ‘build and thicken’ military partnerships in the Pacific © US Army/Pfc. Peter Bannister Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world General Ronald Clark, the commander of US Army forces in Asia, wants to visibly increase American military capabilities in the Indo-Pacific to enhance deterrence and reduce the chances of war. “I’d like to be able to reveal enough capability and readiness in the time that I’m in command here to deter war,” Clark told the FT in an interview. The commander of US Army Pacific, one of the components of Indo-Pacific Command, said he wanted to demonstrate more “exquisite” military capabilities to help “show the adversary some things that they sh...
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  Listen Share Print Translate Article Settings Increase font size Decrease font size E-Mail Alerts & Support E-Mail Alerts Contact Us Feedback India once went look­ing for voters. Not any more Financial Times Europe Milan Vaish­nav The author is a senior fel­low at the Carne­gie Endow­ment for Inter­na­tional Peace 20 Oct 2026 Settings Print Share Copy Listen A demo­cracy that once went look­ing for voters is increas­ingly demand­ing that voters prove they belong. That reversal is at the heart of a grow­ing polit­ical con­front­a­tion in India. In recent days, oppos­i­tion parties and civil soci­ety act­iv­ists have taken to New Delhi’s streets demand­ing the resig­na­tion of the coun­try’s chief elec­tion com­mis­sioner. The mobil­isa­tion has been cata­lysed by the Cock­roach Janata Party, an upstart Gen Z move­ment whose earlier protests over exam fraud forced the resig­na­tion of India’s higher edu­ca­tion min­is­ter. At the heart of the cur­rent protests lies the Spe­cial...
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  Listen Share Print Translate Article Settings Increase font size Decrease font size E-Mail Alerts & Support E-Mail Alerts Contact Us Feedback The end of Trump whis­per­ing Financial Times Europe Gideon Rach­man gideon.rach­man@ft.com 20 Oct 2026 Settings Print Share Copy Listen The latest crisis in rela­tions between the US and Ukraine has strong echoes of the darkest days of 2025. The infam­ous tele­vised Oval Office con­front­a­tion between JD Vance, Don­ald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy crys­tal­lised fears that Amer­ica was now on Rus­sia’s side. Those wor­ries flared up again with the Trump-Putin sum­mit in Alaska. European lead­ers respon­ded to these pre­vi­ous crises with determ­ined Trump-whis­per­ing. They embraced Zelenskyy and coached him on how to sound grate­ful and con­cili­at­ory in his deal­ings with the US pres­id­ent. And they deluged Trump with phone calls and flat­tery, in an effort to take the roughest edges off US policy. This time around things look di...
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